Gift basket assemblies

Abstract

A basket assembly has an open top base container, a strap form handle having attachment clips at opposite ends snap-fitted into apertures on opposite wall portions of the base container adjacent the rim to upstand in bowed condition from the rim; a product/gift display board and, fasteners for attaching the handle to the display board so that the display board extends vertically above the rim. The handle has outrigged hooks adjacent the attachment clips for hooking over the container rim to stabilize the handle on the container and shoulder portions with board mounting protuberances locating a lower edge of the display board resting on the shoulders. The fasteners have clasp portions for receiving intermediate portions of the handle as a snap fit and are integrally molded with board anchoring portions which receive securing posts to anchor the handle to the display board.

1. A basket assembly comprising a base container and a strap form handle therefor, the base container having an open top and being defined by opposite vertical side wall portions extending downward from horizontal top edge portions and formed with downwardly facing locking abutment surfaces and the handle being an elongate, plastic strap portion formed as a one-piece molding with a major plane and respective opposite longitudinal ends formed with handle attachment clip portions by which said handle is mounted to respective opposite sidewall portions by locking engagement with respective downwardly facing locking abutment surfaces, so that the handle upstands in bowed condition vertically above said open top, and wherein each handle attachment clip portion comprises a body portion having an upper end joining the strap portion and an outer limb and an inner limb, at least one of which limbs is resiliently flexible, depending in side by side relation from and integrally joined to outer and inner locations of a lower end of the body portion, one of the depending limbs having a catch portion which protrudes toward another of the depending limbs,
 said depending limbs define together a downwardly opening mouth; 
 so that the handle can be assembled with the base container by holding the strap portion with the mouths of the handle attachment clip portions receiving horizontal top edge portions of the side wall portions and the catch portions aligned above respective locking abutment surfaces and pushing the strap portion down causing each handle attachment clip portion to slide down the wall portion which is received between the inner and outer limbs until each catch portion snaps under each downwardly facing locking abutment surface; 
 wherein the strap portion of the handle has a molding integral therewith as one piece, the molding comprising a strengthening rib upstanding medially along a top, major surface thereof and the basket assembly further comprises a fastener for attaching the strap portion of the handle to a face of a display board, the fastener comprising: 
 a board anchoring portion integrally connected by a web hinge to a clasp portion and post means for penetrating the display board and engageable with the anchoring portion for fixing the anchoring portion to a face of the display board: 
 the clasp portion comprising a pair of arms extending in spaced apart, parallel relation away from the anchoring portion and joined at a remote end by a transverse arm from a central location of which a resilient latching arm extends back toward the anchoring portion and spaced above and between the pair of arms, the resilient latching arm being formed with an inverted retention channel and terminating in a free end which extends upwardly away from the pair of arms providing a widening mouth for easy insertion of the strap portion, laterally, into the clasp portion between the latching arm and the pair of arms, 
 so that the anchoring portion can be fixed to a face of the display board by engagement with the fixing means, locating the pair of arms extending parallel to the face of the display board and the strap portion can be secured to the clasp portion by forcible lateral insertion longitudinal edge first into the mouth between the upturned free end of the latching arm and the pair of arms so as to flex the latching arm away from the pair of arms to cause the rib to snap into the retention channel which permits the latching arm to return to extend parallel to the display board trapping the strap portion in the clasp portion; and so that the clasp portion and the strap portion trapped therein can then be pivoted through a right angle about the web hinge to extend perpendicularly to the display board. 
 
   
   
     2. A basket assembly according to  claim 1  wherein a clasp portion retention stop upstands from the anchoring portion so as to engage and trap the upwardly extending free end of the resilient latching arm during pivotal movement of the clasp portion and strap, thereby retaining the clasp portion and strap pivoted to extend perpendicularly to the face of the display board.